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Plant research funding crucial for the futureStanford, CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2012 The scientific community needs to make a 10-year, $100 billion investment in food and energy security, says Carnegie's Wolf Frommer and Tom Brutnell of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in an opinion piece published in the June issue of The Scientist. They say the importance of addressing these concerns in light of a rapidly growing global population is on par with President John Kennedy's promise to put man on the moon-a project that took a decade and cost $24 billion. "Today, we fac ... read more |
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  UH research team uses airborne LiDAR to unveil Honduran archaeological ruins A field team from the University of Houston and the National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) has mapped a remote region of Honduras that may contain the l ... more | .. |
 Low-carbon farming takes root in Brazil's Amazon Manoel Jose Leite, a small-scale organic farmer, is set to pioneer low-carbon agriculture in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, which for decades has been destroyed by expanding agribusiness. ... more | .. |
 Apple unveils maps program, challenging Google Apple unveiled its own mapping program Monday, challenging Google for the popular software application and opening up a new front in the war with the maker of the Android operating system. ... more | .. |
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  Geoengineering could disrupt rainfall patterns A geoengineering solution to climate change could lead to significant rainfall reduction in Europe and North America, a team of European scientists concludes. The researchers studied how models of t ... more | .. |
 Nepal 'Himalayan Viagra' harvest droops to record low Every summer, Himalayan villages empty as locals rush to the mountains of northern Nepal to harvest yarchagumba, a high-altitude wild fungus that is prized for its aphrodisiac qualities. ... more | .. |
  Ex-hunter thrills bird watchers on Ecuador preserve After hunting birds for decades, Angel Paz now guides bird-watchers who flock to his forested mountain preserve in Ecuador, home to one-sixth of the world's bird species. ... more | .. |
 Latest genomic studies shed new light on maize diversity and evolution BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, together with other 17 international institutes, announced that they completed the second generation of maize HapMap (Maize HapMap2) and genomics stud ... more |
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AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners
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 Reduced tillage doesn't mean reduced cotton yields under drip irrigation Loss of production may be one concern cotton producers have on the Rolling Plains when considering switching to reduced- or no-tillage systems, said Dr. Paul DeLaune, Texas AgriLife Research environ ... more | .. |
 Blowing in the wind: How hidden flower features are crucial for bees As gardeners get busy filling tubs and borders with colourful bedding plants, scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol have discovered more about what makes flowers attractive to bees ... more | .. |
 OU scientists and international team deciper the genetic code of the tomato University of Oklahoma scientists and others from more than a dozen countries joined together to sequence the tomato genome and, ultimately, improve the nation's $2 billion tomato crop. The Tomato G ... more | .. |
  Sierra Nevada 200 year megadroughts confirmed The erratic year-to-year swings in precipitation totals in the Reno-Tahoe area conjures up the word "drought" every couple of years, and this year is no exception. The Nevada State Climate Office at ... more |
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 Scientists complete most comprehensive genetic analysis yet of corn An interdisciplinary team, led by researchers at Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), has published the most comprehensive analysis to ... more | .. |
 Practical Tool Can 'Take Pulse' Of Blue-Green Algae Status In Lakes Scientists have designed a screening tool that provides a fast, easy and relatively inexpensive way to predict levels of a specific toxin in lakes that are prone to blue-green algal blooms. Bl ... more | .. |
 Taking action for GMES Representatives from the areas of economy, health, energy, agriculture, climate change, disaster management and key decision makers gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark, this week to show their support f ... more | .. |
 Brazil spends $1.3 mln to ease NE drought: Rousseff Brazil will spend $1.3 million to send water to the drought-ravaged northeast which is in the grips of its worst dry spell in a half-century, President Dilma Rousseff announced Monday. ... more |
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Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program
Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm
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 Monsoon arrives in India, cheering farmers The annual monsoon, crucial to India's food production and economic growth, arrived Tuesday on the southwest coast four days behind schedule, the meteorological department said. ... more | .. |
 EU farming reform caught in budget stalemate EU agriculture ministers railed Tuesday against a political stalemate over the bloc's budget, warning that planned reform to ensure funding goes to "green" farmers risks huge delays. ... more | .. |
 Brazil farmers in legal feud with Monsanto over GM soy Illegally smuggled into Brazil 14 years ago, transgenic soy has proved a boon to domestic farmers and now accounts for 85 percent of total production. ... more | .. |
Syrian refugees draining water-poor Jordan dry Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees who have fled from carnage and violence at home to neighbouring Jordan are draining the desert kingdom's meager water resources, officials and experts say. ... more |
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France to ban Swiss pesticide as bee threat The French government is to ban a pesticide made by Swiss giant Syngenta used in rapeseed cultivation that has been found to shorten bees' lifespan, Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Tomato genome becomes fully sequenced For the first time, the genome of the tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, has been decoded, and it becomes an important step toward improving yield, nutrition, disease resistance, taste and color of the t ... more | .. |
 Time is ticking for some crop's wild relatives A botanist brings a species of alfalfa from Siberia, to the United States. His hope? The plant survives, and leads to a new winter-hardy alfalfa. But what also happened during this time in the late ... more | .. |
 Livestock industry beefs up Illinois economy recent report conducted by the University of Illinois provides an economic snapshot of the current state of the livestock industry, giving the Illinois livestock industry data to back up their impor ... more |
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DAMPE space telescope finds universal spectral feature that narrows field on cosmic ray origins
ThinKom Develops Self-Funded Mobile HPM Weapon to Counter Drone Swarms
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 Australia and China eye joint farming plan Australia is seeking Chinese investment to develop farming land in its sprawling north in a joint bid to boost food security for the Asian giant's 1.3 billion citizens, reports said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Shiraz with your Peking Duck? Sacre bleu! China's rapid emergence as a major international wine market has sparked intense debate among growers about how best to pair their wines with the country's rich array of culinary delights. ... more | .. |
 CryoSat goes to sea CryoSat was launched in 2010 to measure sea-ice thickness in the Arctic, but data from the Earth-observing satellite have also been exploited for other studies. High-resolution mapping of the topogr ... more | .. |
 S Korea to develop geostationary satellite for environmental monitoring South Korea has fully embarked on the development of a geostationary environmental satellite with the goal of launching it in 2018, the government said Monday. The Ministry of Environment said ... more |
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 LiDAR Technology Reveals Faults Near Lake Tahoe Results of a new U.S. Geological Survey study conclude that faults west of Lake Tahoe, Calif., referred to as the Tahoe-Sierra frontal fault zone, pose a substantial increase in the seismic hazard a ... more | .. |
 One in seven suffer malnourishment: UN food agency One in seven people suffer from malnourishment, the head of the UN's food agency said Wednesday in a report released ahead of a summit on sustainable development to be held in Rio de Janeiro June 20-22. ... more | .. |
 Women warming to white wines in China: experts Fruity reds are the kings of the Chinese wine market, but experts at Asia's biggest wine fair say women are leading a trend toward whites that will open new revenue streams for producers worldwide. ... more | .. |
 Research pinpoints how plants know when to flower Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants "know" when to flower. Determining the proper time to flower, important if a plant is to reproduc ... more |
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